nydailynews.com - 8/25/2009
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Johan Santana will have his elbow cleaned out, ending his season, but the ace should be fine for 2010, the Mets announced. Team doctor David Altchek examined Santana at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Santana will have bone chips removed.
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mlb.mlb.com - 8/25/2009
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mlb.mlb.com —
By Anthony DiComo / MLB.com 08/25/09 3:55 PM
ET MIAMI -- Mets left-hander Johan Santana will undergo...
minor arthroscopic surgery to clean up bone chips in his left elbow and will miss the remainder of the season. Santana is expected to fully recover ...
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Santana has bone chips; season is over | MLB.com: News
blogs.nypost.com - 8/25/2009
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blogs.nypost.com —
Yes, I am on Twitter. 1. The Mets
have known for quite a while now - at...
least a month - that they had no shot at the playoffs this year. So why was Johan Santana still making starts...
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3 UP: SANTANA, SABATHIA AND O'DAY
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Erik Estrada, not Tommy John
baseballmusings.com —
Johan Santana needs bone chips cleaned out of his elbow:
“It’s mostly soreness. It’s my understanding from the doctors there are bone chips,” Mets general manager Omar Minaya said on a conference call. “We all want to see Johan Santana pitching in September. But this is a smart move because we want to see him pitching for the long haul.”
He should be fine for next season. That’s good news for Johan and the Mets, as well as the rest of us who enjoy watching him pitch.
Mets' Santana would have played hurt
MLB - Sports Rumors - Yahoo! Sports —
... is done for the season with a hurt left elbow and he has likely taken any whiff of a chance for the massively injured team with him. But if the team had been close to contention, Santana is saying that he would have gone right on and pitched hurt, according to the New York Daily News. ...
Uncle! Uncle! Please Stop!!! UNCLE!!!!
Major League Jerk —
... and mismanagement. Good thing Omar is coming back.
In other Met news, Gary Sheffield left last night’s game with back spasms, J.J Putz tore a forearm tendon rehabbing and is done for the year, Ollie Perez was flown to New York to get his knee examined (it should be his fucking head) and Billy Wagner was sent to Boston for a 26 year old minor league slugger who can’t field. Great day. Great fucking day. Oh, and they lost.
h/t NY Daily News for the quotes
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